Nollywood actress and skit maker, Etinosa Idemudia, has recalled how some colleagues tried to dissuade her when she was just diversifying into skits.
She noted how they said she was downgrading her profile, thus causing confusion in her head.
She, however, said her decision to stay against the tide had paid off.
In an interview on ‘Arise TV’, the actress emphasised the need to exercise caution while listening to others’ counsel as against one’s own inner voice.
She explained: “See, my people, in life, just listen to your spirit. Too much advice can cause problems for you in life. When I was getting a lot of attention in Nollywood, some filmmakers were telling me things like ‘why are you doing comedy?’, ‘why are you doing skits?’, ‘You look like Adesua, be doing roles like Adesua. You need to be packaged, you need to behave well.’ That time, I was doing that my Benin accent, and they were like why are you doing razz things?
“You’re too fine to do comedy. Then they mentioned some female comedy people, that it fits them; but me, I need to start doing photoshoot and packaging, that I should not ‘mumu’ myself. So, that caused a lot of confusion and conflict in my head back then, trying to figure out should I package and speak English? Or should I keep on doing my razz accent? So, I stopped for a while.
I said I was not going to do skits again. I’m just going to be doing serious Nollywood.
I would even have some of my colleagues at that time who I’d want to put in my skits that would tell me, ‘No, I want to be a serious actor. I’m not doing skit. I don’t want any producer to think I’m not serious in life.’
“But look at 2024, look at those same people. All those ones that advised me against it are now doing skits. Hypocrisy! So, when you’re growing, don’t listen to any person o! Just follow your God given destiny and pray to God for your own ideas. Now, I’m doing my skits, I’m doing my serious films, and I’m doing everything I want to do. I’m telling my stories my own way with no distractions.”
